The GOP’s answer to its post-Trump blues: More Trump
For a moment, it looked like the Republican Party was getting some distance from the former president. Not anymore.
Local and state Republican parties are censuring Republicans for disloyalty in states across the country. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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For a moment, it looked like Donald Trump might be losing his iron
grip on the GOP. In the wake of the deadly Capitol riot, 10 House Republicans joined Democrats in their vote to impeach him. Several other Republicans openly
suggested at least censuring the president.
Not anymore.
Local and state Republican parties are censuring Republicans for disloyalty in states across the country. The lawmakers who broke with him are weathering a storm of criticism from Trump-adoring constituents at home, with punitive primary challenges already taking shape. In Washington, party leaders who once suggested Trump bore some responsibility for the Jan. 6 violence are backtrac
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[ Editor’s Note: I was concerned about this happening early on, not because I am smarter that all the political pundits, but simply not seeing anywhere else for Trump supporters to go.
Moderate Republicans, the ones that used to always be able to compromise in a dialogue about proposed legislation, are an endangered species. There is no way they could ever attract the Trumper vote due to their antipathy toward conspiracies, which is the political crack cocaine to the T-mob, without which they all would remain in a permanent depression.
While Trump has mentioned a possible third party, literally a death threat to the Republican party in terms of ever seeing a majority again, why would he want to start from scratch, when all the state party Republican infrastructure is in place waiting to be used, especially fund raising?
Republican Infighting Over Trump Brings Censures And Calls For Resignations
Republican Infighting Over Trump Brings Censures And Calls For Resignations
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As some Republicans try to make a break from the politics of former President Donald J. Trump, his loyalists have issued a series of censures and denouncements that lay bare the roiling conflict within the party.
The Nelson County, Ky., GOP deemed Sen. Mitch McConnell unfit for the Republican Party after he issued a scathing denunciation of Trump’s actions during the Capitol riot. The group voted unanimously to censure the senator.
Kentucky Republican leaders knock down resolution urging McConnell to stand by Trump Daniel Desrochers, Lexington Herald-Leader
Jan. 23 Leaders in the Republican Party of Kentucky Saturday knocked down a resolution that would have urged Sen. Mitch McConnell to oppose the impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
The decision came after a group of 28 county party chairpersons and vice chairpersons forced a special meeting to consider the resolution, and it marks McConnell s continued firm hold on the Kentucky Republican establishment as the party figures out a path after the Trump era.
The meeting of the Republican State Central Committee, which consists of 378 members, was closed to the press. The Republican Party of Kentucky put out a statement after the meeting but did not mention the resolution, which was ruled out of order by a 134-49 vote, according to a member of the committee.
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